FREEPORT — If Freeport wants to experience any significant postseason success in boys soccer this season, it will have to do something it hadn’t done prior to Wednesday night.

“I told the guys if we’re going to win a regional we’ve got to win two games in a row and we haven’t done that all year so we wanted to do that today,” Freeport coach Nick Namio said.

The Pretzels (5-8-1, 2-3 NIC-10) won consecutive matches for the first time all season by beating Belvidere North 3-2, and earned a measure of revenge in the process. The Pretzels fell to the Blue Thunder 2-1 early in the season at the DeKalb tournament.

“It’s definitely nice to win against a team we lost to earlier in the year in a close game that was real disappointing,” Freeport senior co-captain Matt King said. “It’s nice to come back and show them what we’ve got this time around.”

King got the scoring started for the Pretzels by sneaking one past the North goalie a little more than eight minutes in.

Junior Dante Euell then gave Freeport a 2-0 lead as he found the net on a shot with eight minutes left before halftime.

The Pretzels’ two-goal lead at the break wouldn’t have been enough, however. North’s Brian Sanchez knocked one in off a rebound following a shot that deflected off the post to pull the Blue Thunder (7-10, 1-5) within 2-1 nearly midway through the second half.

“We definitely had no time to slack around or anything,” King said. “We had to keep up the energy. We had to step it up and make sure we didn’t die off at the end of the game because we didn’t have much of a cushion.”

Adam Winters gave the Pretzels a two-goal lead again, scoring with 15 minutes left, but North pulled back within one by netting another goal eight minutes later. Freeport was able to hold off North for the final seven minutes, but not without some nervous moments for Namio, who has seen his squad give up a lead before.

“We played really well at times and gave ourselves a good opportunity to win and then we gave ourselves an opportunity to put Belvidere North back in it,” Namio said. “Our defensive organization has got to be better as the game progresses, especially when we have a two-goal lead late in the game.”

The Pretzels play at Guilford Saturday, hoping to turn two-in-a-row into a three-game win streak.